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hard/, and will grow upon almoft 

 any Soil or Situation : they produce 

 their Flowers in June and July, and 

 their Seeds ripen foon after. 



The other Sorts are all of them 

 annual Plants, which may be eafily 

 propagated by fowing their Seeds 

 either in March or Anguji, when the 

 Plants will {enn come up, and may 

 be tranfplantcd, while young, into 

 the Places where they are defign'd 

 to remain ; or the Seeds may be 

 fcatterM in Patches upon the large 

 BorJers of the Flower-garden j and 

 when the Plaits are come up, they 

 may be thinn'd, leaving lbme of the 

 itrongeft to Rower in the fame Places; 

 and the otherPlams maybe removed 

 into other Parts of the Garden. 



Thofe Plants which come up in 

 Autumn will be much larger, and 

 flower earlier and ftronger, than 

 thofe fown in the Spring, and will 

 produce good Seeds ; whereas it 

 iometimes happens in bad Seafons, 

 that thofe fown in the Spring often 

 decay, before their Seeds are per- 

 fected ; though it is a good Method 

 to fowat both Seafons ; becaufe here- 

 by there will be aSuccemon cfFlow- 

 ers, and twoChance^ for good Seeds. 



The Dwarf Lychnis has been by 

 fome recommended to be (own for 

 Edgings in large Gardens ; but I 

 think it by no means proper for 

 that Purpofe ; for when the Plants 

 grow very clofe together, they draw 

 up weak, fo that in hard Rains they 

 are beaten down flat to the Ground, 

 and the Flowers feidom continue 

 long in Beauty ; fo that it does not 

 afford any Pleaiure above a Fort- 

 night or three Weeks at molt, after 

 which it appears very unfightly ;for 

 when it is in Seed, the Weight of 

 that forces it down upon the Ground ; 

 but when the Plants grow fingly, 

 they will be much larger and ftrong- 

 er, and continue .longer in flower. 



The two Sorts of lobel\ Catch - 

 fly have been long cultivated in *orar— 

 dens, and the Seeds are commonly 

 fold at the Seed-mops in London : 

 thefe grow upright to the Height 

 of fixtecn or eighteen Inches (if 

 fown in the Autumn; but thofe 

 which are fown in the Spring feidom 

 grow fo large) : they produce pretty 

 Tufts of Flowers upon the Tops of 

 the Branches in form of an Umbe', 

 which continue a long time in Per- 

 fection, and are pretty Ornaments 

 in a large Garden. 



The twenty-fecond Sort fpreads 

 upon the Ground, and therefore 

 mull: be allowed more room than the 

 former : thefe Plants lhould be plant- 

 ed two Feet afunder, otherwife they 

 will run into each other (efpecially 

 fuch as are fown in the Autumn) ; 

 fo that in wet Weather they are fub- 

 je£l to rot and decay. This produces 

 a great Number of beautiful red 

 Flowers, which make a very agree- 

 able Appearance during their Sea- 

 fon of Flowering. 



There are a great Number of 

 Sorts more than I have here men- 

 tion'd, which are preferv'd in cu- 

 rious Botanic Gardens for Variety- 

 fake; but as molt of them are Plants 

 of little Beauty, I think it neediefs 

 to enumerate them in this Place, F.nce 

 thofe here mentioned are the beft 

 worth propagating in a Flower- 

 garden. 



LYCIUM, Box-thorn, <vulgs. 



The Characters are ; 

 The Flower is funneijhaped, hav- 

 ing an incurred Tuhe^ which is 

 Jpread op.n at the Top, where it is 

 Jl'ghtlj cut into five Parts : in the 

 Centre of the Flower is fituaicd the 

 Pointal ; attended by fi<vc Jhort Sta- 

 mina, each fupporting an ereel Sum- 

 mit : the Pointal afterward hecemfs 

 a round Berry, divided into thret Cells 

 filled with kidney-Jfcaped Seeds. 



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